Lately, my screen has been dimming very quickly after I remove my finger from the phone. Sometimes it's normal (sleep after 30 seconds) but sometimes it will dim after 1-3 seconds. I'm running a gummy nightly from a week or so ago. As you could imagine, it's very annoying. Anyone know why this would be happening?
This may be a coincidence, but the dimming started after I updated XDA premium to the latest version. I don't see how the app would affect my screen dimming as it's across every app and on the homescreen.
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try to disable pocket mode in settings/screen
My apologies, I thought I mentioned what my phone was running in the OP. I'm running Gummy 1.0 (ICS) and as far as I know, there is no pocket detection.
I AM using Auto-Brightness, but that is because there is currently no way to enable keyboard backlight without it. The dimming occurs regardless of the light levels. It can happen when the light level doesn't change at all.
Try disabling then re-enabling auto brightness.
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Try playing with the auto brightness settings.
Disabled and re-enabled autobrighness. We'll see what happens. My guess is that for some reason, my phone doesn't consider the small touches I do (small scrolling up and down) as actually touches and thus fails to reset the 30 second time out. If resetting my autobrightness doesn't help, I'll just update to a newer nightly for my ROM.
Thanks for the replies guys!
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Someone correct me if I am wrong but shouldn't enabling the option of "Automatic brightness adjustment" under the brightness menu in sounds and display enable the light sensor to adjust the brightness of the LCD based on ambient lighting? I notice no difference with my brightness and it is always one static level. I've tried putting it up to different lights, taking it outside, etc and it doesn't automatically adjust. I couldn't find anything in a search for this... does anyone else have this problem?
I have this problem as well. What firmware are you running and do you have any mods or sre or anything?
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I'm just running stock firmware rooted, I'm going to flash to some kind of rom eventually but just haven't had the time
Are there any roms that this option is confirmed working?
Mine is stock and seems to work just fine. It changes brightness as I move through the office between dark reading rooms and bright conference rooms.
I'm not a big fan of that feature in any of my phones. I prefer to have a constant bright screen, but I haven't bothered turning it off yet for some reason.
Weird how mine doesn't work.. I just waste battery life while I am in the office with the phone and wish it would auto adjust. I'm trying the beautiful brightness widget but I find it tedious to have to micro manage my brightness before going outside
Have you installed any type of screen protector that requires the use of water to apply? I'm wondering if that's what happened to mine.
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Auto brightness doesn't seem to be working too well in JH7 for me. Keeps the brightness all the way down in my lit up room. Worked best on the original JF6.
I have seen my screen change brightness a few times with the automatic setting, but I generally keep it on the lowest brightness to save battery. I'm running the stock firmware.
My biggest problem with the auto brightness is that the dynamic range isn't wide enough. Even in direct sunlight, it doesn't bump up to maximum brightness. The high should be higher, and the low should be loooower.
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No screen protector, just a Body Guards case
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I noticed the same...no change in brightness when "auto" is selected. From day 1. I keep my brightness pretty low to save battery life, so it wasn't a deal breaker. Would be nice if it worked though.
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Please, any input is useful. ):
I just bought a nexus one the other day, and i think I was scammed. THe power button works fine, but occasionally, the screen would get super dim. It doesn't black out because I can faintly see all of the icons and menus, and I can tap them. ALso, its not automatic brightness, because its horribly horribly hard to see. Pulling the battery (sometimes) fixes this problem.
I'm currently running Kang-o-rama with SP2.
Has this ever happened to anyone? If so, how did you fix it?
It does sound its the auto brightness. If you're outside and its dims it is very hard to see. You the default android power widget to test it. It has brightness toggle on it. Full /auto/dim/ and basically the middle.
I'll take a picture of it once my dad comes home, but I tested it last night if it was autobrightness.
I waited for it to dim, then went into settings, disabled autobrightness, and put the brightness all the way up. It was still super dim, and didn't return to normal until I pulled the battery.
I would look for support in the thread for that rom. Or flash another rom. Sounds like it is just a bug in your rom.
I just installed a Miui rom hoping it'll fix it (cause I was using cm7 based roms) and it worked for a while.
Now it began to Flicker and finally turned off. It'll ring when phones call it but nothing will show on the screen. I'll pull the battery but this time nothing shows up (though it vibrates indicating it turns on).
I know this is a hardware problem now, do you guys know what part it is?
Please, any input is appreciated.
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Has anyone else noticed this?
Mainly when playing a game or browsing the Web. Lines flicker Cross the display horizontally
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av4tar said:
Has anyone else noticed this?
Mainly when playing a game or browsing the Web. Lines flicker Cross the display horizontally
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Yeah, I get a slight flicker, but like as if the auto brightness is still on but not as strong.
I turn auto brightness off, but I know what you mean.
These are actual lines
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Mine looks like the auto brightness gets a bit jittery. Usually when on the net but I've had it in a few other places. It makes it look like the processor is struggling to handle what ever is going on, it isn't, but it gives that impression.
Maybe the transition between brightness levels is set to too big an increment so it appears to jump between levels instead of smoothly fading.
Turn off auto brightness.
I didn't notice it until I sat under a certain light in my house. I guess the luminance in the room sits between two thresholds and causes it to madly flick between them. It looks like a bug which will hopefully get fixed!
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Nope, as stated its not auto brightness, I have it turned off.
I've noticed its not on every app. Farm invasion USA it will only have the lines flickering when the character respawns. Browsing the Web that often, watching a movie it doesn't do it at all.
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The app I mentioned I think it may be normal upon respawn, I'll test it on my SXS
Still, it flickers on chrome, and it's also done it just while in the dialer
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I've only noticed flickering when I had auto brightness turned on. I've been using my phone and N7 exclusively for the last two weeks as I had no access to a computer, so it got enough viewing!
With auto brightness on, in some lighting situations I am able to reproduce the flickering by angling the phone so it borders on the threshold it changes to the next level.
I've turned auto brightness off, and have not noticed any flickering while using Chrome/Tapatalk/Spotify/WhatsApp/Talk/SMS etc etc.
Only thing that bugs me so far is the noisy vibrate, bugged me so much I had to turn off haptic feedback.
My screen flickers sometimes in the power saver mode n also when my brightness is set to about less than 40%. Should I be worried or it can be fixed in the software update? Anyone else with the same problem?
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Can you check for me if changing to another keyboard solves this flicker? I too noticed this ever so slight flicker but only when using stock keyboard if I change over to Swiftkey then it doesn't happen for me. It looks like its the screen flickering but in actual fact it seems to be just the keyboard area of the screen.
Report back if it fixes the issue for you. If it does then obviously this is software and we needn't worry.
sprint htc one user here. stock not rooted.
ive seen this obvious abrupt dimming since day one (had since launch). i use swiftkey only and no other keyboard.
when the screen is not in use i still see the screen dim. it dims abruptly as opposed to a gradual dim. i chalked it up to software that may be included in an update.
does NOT do it ALL the time though....
Well I tried with SwiftKey it didn't work. It's not just the keyboard are that flickers. It's the whole screen like trying to adjust to a particular brightness. If the brightness is set to about 70% there is no flicker
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i guess this screens use PWM:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/htc-one/272432-htc-one-screen-issue.html
Since updating to marshmallow, my longer notification sounds, especially Calendar Snooze, are cut off.
I read somewhere about an app setting to allow it to turn the screen on as a fix. I did that but now I can't remember what app I made the change in or where I read that suggestion. I thought it might have been Light Flow, but I can't find it in there.
Now my power button fails to wake up the screen the majority of the time. Sometimes the lock screen will flash for a fraction of a second and go black again. Usually it takes 6-10 tries before the screen finally stays on so I can use my phone.
Since the wake up problem started when I tried to fix the notification sound, I'm pretty sure they're related. Any ideas?
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JimSmith94 said:
Since updating to marshmallow, my longer notification sounds, especially Calendar Snooze, are cut off.
I read somewhere about an app setting to allow it to turn the screen on as a fix. I did that but now I can't remember what app I made the change in or where I read that suggestion. I thought it might have been Light Flow, but I can't find it in there.
Now my power button fails to wake up the screen the majority of the time. Sometimes the lock screen will flash for a fraction of a second and go black again. Usually it takes 6-10 tries before the screen finally stays on so I can use my phone.
Since the wake up problem started when I tried to fix the notification sound, I'm pretty sure they're related. Any ideas?
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if youre using lightflow id suggest wiping the data in it and resetting your notification settings. it does tend to override the system so i can see that screwing with the duration of the notification, and starting fresh usually solves most problems
i have mine set to wake the screen for SMS but not MMS. it creates similar problems with the screen
Thanks for the info. I tried just toggling the screen on settings on and back off for all of the Light Flow apps, and it seems to have fixed my screen turn on problem, at least for now.
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I'm having the same notification sound cut short problem, I have a nexus 7 wifi 2013 model running Mohamed rom v2.1
Whenever anyone calls me on google hangouts, the ring only lasts for a second before its cut off, this doesn't happen if the front cover is open, it happens only when its closed.
I didn't have this problem on kitkat, but on MM this problem started from day 1.
I don't see any light flow option anywhere.
Any suggestions to fix this will be very appreciated.
Thanks.
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I'm having the same notification sound cut short problem, I have a nexus 7 wifi 2013 model running Mohamed rom v2.1
Whenever anyone calls me on google hangouts, the ring only lasts for a second before its cut off, this doesn't happen if the front cover is open, it happens only when its closed.
I didn't have this problem on kitkat, but on MM this problem started from day 1.
I don't see any light flow option anywhere.
Any suggestions to fix this will be very appreciated.
Thanks.
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LightFlow fixed my screen problems, but it was just a coincidence that I installed Marshmallow and my sounds got cut off around the same time. I'm still looking for a solution to that issue. Similar to you, if my screen is on, the notification sounds work correctly. If the screen is off, they get cut off.